Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• Report of great meeting in Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, February 25th, 1892
• Why Wyoming is to be congratulated
• Friendly words to Christian women on religion and politics
• Women's suffrage; from a speech by Mrs. Wynford Philipps
• Women's enfranchisement bill; speech by Mr. McLaren, M.P.
• The Progressive Party in the Women's Liberal Federation, 1891
• 25 reasons for supporting women's suffrage
• The Women's Liberal Federation and Women's suffrage; by H. Morgan-Browne
• Difference of sex as a topic of jurisprudence and legislation; by the late Sheldon Amos
• Leaflet No. V: bibliographical; Women's Progressive Society
• Opinions of Liberal leaders
• An appeal to members of the House of Commons on the question of Women's suffrage
• The history of the Women's suffrage controversy in the Women's Liberal Federation; issued by the Hull Women's Liberal Association
• Be just and fear not: an answer to the question should the Women's Liberal Federation declare that one of its objects is to obtain the enfranchisement of women; issued by the Hull Women's Liberal Association
• A new scheme of work adopted by the Central National Society for Women's Suffrage: leaflet no.1
• A new scheme of work adopted by the Central National Society for Women's Suffrage: leaflet no.2
• The letter which ought to have been written by the Right Hon. W.E.Gladstone, M.P. to Samuel Smith M.P.; Central National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1892
• A letter from the Right Hon. W.E.Gladstone, M.P. to Samuel Smith M.P, 1892
• A reply to the letter of Mr Samuel Smith, M.P. on Women's suffrage; by Mrs Fawcett
• Women's work and Women's vote; Pall Mall Gazette, December 2nd , 1891
• The political enfranchisement of women; by Justin M'Carthy M.P., 1890

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This is a collection of pamphlets collected by Ruth Cavendish-Bentinck, socialist and suffragist, which have been bound into volumes. The collection contains many pamphlets relating to the women's suffrage campaign from the 1860s to approximately 1900. Other topics are also covered, such as Octavia Hill and her work with the poor (volume 1), the Marriage Law Reform Association (volume 22), The Women's Institute (the club, not the National Federation of Women's Institutes, volume 23) and women's suffrage in the United States (volume 35).

We are grateful to the Friends of The Women's Library for assisting with the digitisation of this collection.

Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• A brief summary in plain language of the most important laws of England concerning women, Barbara L.S.Bodichon
• The Rev.F.D. Maurice on female suffrage
• Criminals, idiots, women and minors: is the classification sound, Frances Power Cobbe

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Speech of Jacob Bright, Esq., M.P. on the electoral disabilities of women
• Report of a meeting of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1870
• Essay on woman suffrage, J.E. Howard, 1870
• Question of women's suffrage as it stands at present
• Progress of women suffrage during the past year
• Report of a meeting in St. James' Hall for the London National Women's Suffrage Society, 1871
• Debate in the House of Commons on the Women's Disabilities Bill, 1871
• Fourth annual report for the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage. 1871
• Woman suffrage
• Opinions of eminent statesmen on women's suffrage
• Opinions of eminent persons on women's suffrage

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Part 3 of looseleaf volume:

• A few words on the woman's franchise question, James Thorton Hoskins
• Third annual meeting in favour of women's suffrage held in Queen Street Hall, Edinburgh, 1872
• The political disabilities of women
• The married women's property amendment act

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Part 4 of looseleaf volume:

• The woman question: papers reprinted from the Examiner, 1872

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Part 5 of looseleaf volume:

• Report of the Executive Committee, National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1872
• Equal rights for women: a speech by George William Curtis in the Constitutional Convention of New York, 1867
• Ought women to learn the alphabet? Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Constitution, The New England Woman's Suffrage Association
• Woman's right and the public welfare: remarks of Hon. George F. Hoar before a Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, 1869
• Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association
• Third annual report by the Executive Committee For Promoting The Married Women's Property Bill, 1870
• Fourth annual report by the Executive Committee For Promoting The Married Women's Property Bill, 1871

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• Mr. Mills Subjection of Women from a woman's point of view, Claylands Debating Society, 1870
• Objections to woman suffrage: a speech by Captain Maxse at the Electoral Reform Conference, 1874
• The citizenship of women socially considered, by L.S.,1875

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Part 2 of looseleaf volume:

• Seventh annual report of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1874
• Mr. Fitzsjames Stephen on the position of women
• Woman suffrage: a reply, by J.E.Cairnes, 1874

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Part 3 of looseleaf volume:

• Woman suffrage: the counterfeit and the true reasons for opposing both, by Rear-Admiral Maxse
• A plea for the ladies, by N.J. Gossan, 1875

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Part 4 of looseleaf volume:

• Annual report of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1875
• Eighth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1875
• National Society for Women's Suffrage Central Committee 5,000 pound fund
• Speech of Miss Frances Power Cobbe, 1876
• A letter to the Rt. Hon. John Bright, M.P., from A Lady In The Gallery, 1876
• An answer to Mr. John Bright's speech on the women's suffrage, by Arabella Shore
• Female suffrage, W.T. Blair, 1876
• Latest intelligence from the Planet Venus
• Annual report of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1876

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Part 5 of looseleaf volume:

• Ninth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1876
• The Bible and women's suffrage, John Hooker, 1877
• Annual report of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1877
• A few words to temperance women upon the suffrage question, by Mrs. Dawson Burns
• The physical force objection to women's suffrage, 1877
• Man and woman: a sermon, Rev. Brooke Lambert, 1877
• The last ballad of Charles Kingley
• Women's education: their social privileges and their civil rights in Japan, by Michinori S. Nagasaki, 1877

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Part 6 of looseleaf volume:

• The present aspect of women's suffrage considered, by Arabella Shore, 1877
• Tenth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1877
• The earnings of married women, 1876
• Opinions of the press on the property of married women, reprinted by the Married Women's Property Committee, 1877
• Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Coleridge in the House of Lords on the Married Women's Property Act (1870) Amendment Bill, 1877
• Debate on the second reading of the Married Women's Property (Scotland) Bill in the House of Commons, 1877
• [Circular] Married Women's Property Committee, 1877

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Part 1 of looseleaf volume:

• Some of the facts of the women's suffrage question, by Helen Blackburn, 1878
• Comments on the opposition to women's suffrage, by Helen Blackburn, 1878
• A few words to temperance women upon the suffrage question, by Mrs Dawson Burns
• Annual report of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1878
• Eleventh annual report of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1878

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